“I’m not entirely comfortable with the label ‘feminist porn,’” Stormy announces mid-discussion. “What does my vagina have to do with it?” she asks the crowd rhetorically. “Why can’t I just be a great director?”

But that's a paradox female directors of all stripes (females in any industry, really) face. As a woman, you're never just a successful whatever but a successful female whatever.

Performer and sex educator Jessica Drake brought up another way adult films and performers can be feminist: By protecting the rights of female performers. “Sometimes performers are made to feel they don’t have a voice, that they’re disposable,” Drake told Breslin. “We have rights. We have a voice.”